Cirque du Frostgrave: FANTASY WARGAMES ON ICE

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Nebalebadingdong: Jun 30, 2005; i made a video game.
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Mr.Booger posted:

I know my wizard will probably be a grey seer, with some rat-like henchmen. I mean gotta use the models for something, and I still like my Skaven fluff.

I am doing this if I can round anybody to play this with me

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Nebalebadingdong: Jun 30, 2005; i made a video game.
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from

http://thegaragegamers.blogspot.com/2015/05/frostgrave-fantasy-wargames-in-frozen_25.html

# ¿ Jul 13, 2015 11:37

Nebalebadingdong: Jun 30, 2005; i made a video game.
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Do you think there will be limits on how many of certain types of henchman you can take? Could I bring 8 barbarians?

Nebalebadingdong fucked around with this message at 14:37 on Jul 16, 2015

# ¿ Jul 16, 2015 14:33

Nebalebadingdong: Jun 30, 2005; i made a video game.
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I don't think anyone has the book yet...

# ¿ Jul 16, 2015 18:33

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Ashcans posted:

Unless I grossly misunderstood, someone even posted their copy on the previous page!

Ah ha! You're right! I thought it was just the soldiers

# ¿ Jul 16, 2015 18:41

Nebalebadingdong: Jun 30, 2005; i made a video game.
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Do the soldiers get special abilites? Can a thief commit thievery or is he just a dood that moves faster?

# ¿ Jul 18, 2015 00:55

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Beffer posted:

So treasure can be huge or insignificant at the same odds.

I don't have the book yet (

) but the odds don't sound like the problem. The problem would be that there are lovely entries on the treasure table at all. Even if its less likely, rolling booby prize really sucks at the end of a hard fight.

# ¿ Jul 21, 2015 01:06

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berzerkmonkey posted:

I see two problems with this - 1) from an aesthetic standpoint, if your apprentice is one level below you, why would he still be your apprentice? If you're level 14, you're not going to have a level 13 wizard tagging along - he's going to start his own gang. 2) Constantly having a pool of "wannabe wizards" cheapens the game. Your wizard dies, so your apprentice steps up to be the wizard, and he gets his own apprentice... Then your wizard dies, so your apprentice steps up to be the wizard, and he gets his own apprentice... to infinity and beyond!

Its a game, not a simulation.

# ¿ Jul 22, 2015 15:26

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berzerkmonkey posted:

So is AoS. That doesn't forgive poorly implemented rules though.

The problem with a Wizard dying in the later stages of the campaign will be an issue though - not being able to catch up and constantly being at a disadvantage is part of what turned people off with Necromunda and Mordheim. EDIT: Granted, it won't be as big of one, since hireling stats don't increase, but better equipment and spells are certainly going to cause problems to a newer gang.

But like that guy says, maybe turn limits will remove this consideration from the game, since you'll be more concerned about objectives rather than total party (or wizard) kills.

Well I agree its poorly implemented but that wasn't your complaint :shrug:

Allowing the Apprentice to take over is better than nothing at all.

# ¿ Jul 22, 2015 17:47

Nebalebadingdong: Jun 30, 2005; i made a video game.
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Got my book yesterday, its very nice. The setting is generic enough that you don't have to have "ice" anything. The monsters are just basic stat-lines so you can proxy everything. Its also pretty simple, so adding houserules or new scenarios or whatever should be pretty easy. I think I'm gonna paint up 2 warbands and see if I can get some of my disillusioned wargaming buddies to play

# ¿ Jul 23, 2015 18:32

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berzerkmonkey posted:

http://www.davesgames.net/
http://www.worldworksgames.com/store/

Hey that Egyptian pyramid mid terrain would be pretty awesome for this game

# ¿ Jul 24, 2015 00:31

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signalnoise posted:

Is premeasuring allowed?

Yes

# ¿ Jul 24, 2015 02:01

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berzerkmonkey posted:

Ugh - I'm going through all of my stuff, and realizing that I really don't have any models suitable for this game. I've got some of the old Mordheim Empire plastics, but nothing suitable for an apprentice, rangers, thieves, knights, etc. Turns out I have more suited for wandering monsters than an actual Wiz-gang.

This sucks.

No proxies? I'm making an Orc frostgrave band raight nao

# ¿ Aug 12, 2015 20:43

Nebalebadingdong: Jun 30, 2005; i made a video game.
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Apart from being ranged/not ranged, there doesn't seem like a huge difference in the types of soldier. The bonuses are pretty mild.

None of my grumpy ex-ham friends want to play skirmish games

# ¿ Aug 12, 2015 21:45

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No Pun Intended posted:

I need some sprue images!!

# ¿ Aug 13, 2015 14:00

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TheDiceBagLady posted:

I've just made five adventurers out of kitbashing the plastic soldiers box and the statuesque female bald heads. Really easy to do, and the result I think is awesome. I sell the heads and troops of course . Wasn't entirely commercial, was partly to prove some people on another forum wrong (that it wouldn't work) and to find out which of the heads I stock work best. Statuesque heroic are PERFECT. Others are a bit small. And then I actually had fun and did some painting outside of my tin box office!

http://thedicebaglady.net/frostgrave-solider-box-set-of-20-troops/

These are great! So great, I just ordered some heads!

# ¿ Aug 18, 2015 20:43

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# ¿ Aug 27, 2015 15:26

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TKIY posted:

Frosty Skaven?

Wish I could tell you more, the image just popped up on the frostgrave facebook group, and thats all we have.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/Frostgrave/

# ¿ Aug 27, 2015 15:42

Nebalebadingdong: Jun 30, 2005; i made a video game.
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Did they ever put out close up pics of the gnoll sprues?

# ¿ Jul 11, 2016 17:41

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TheDiceBagLady posted:

Aiiiii!!!!

Those are excellent!

# ¿ Sep 14, 2017 14:01

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Irate Tree posted:

According to Dakka, Northstar are releasing a set of female soldiers for Frostgrave in a couple of months. I wonder how much interchangeability there will be between the other box sets or, if they're going to be their own unique thing?

All of the frostgrave plastics are great and I can't wait to see what they look like

# ¿ Jan 21, 2018 20:55

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Nash posted:

Sounds like a nice pile of new wizards coming with the stuff next month. Frostgrave Facebook page has some pics of them.

these are "digital renders" and not sculpts but I hope the sculpts look this cool

# ¿ May 14, 2018 18:27

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Nickstarter starts tomorrow!

# ¿ Oct 11, 2018 15:35

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The only thing I don't like is that they all seem to be wearing the same fur lined coat. Should be more varied like the other boxes. But whatever

# ¿ Oct 12, 2018 03:26

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Indolent Bastard posted:

This is the default Rangers of Shadow Deep thread right?

I made a bridge for mission 2 scenario 1.

I almost redid the stone work as I hated the red and yellow stone, but a second wash and looking at it under normal (not paint bench) lights and I was OK with it.

My mighty band of warriors.

awesome!!

# ¿ Jul 15, 2019 18:40

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LashLightning posted:

This appears to be everything on the sprue - and there will be two of the sprue in the box they'll sell. A really nice mix of different types of heads - you could really go Maiden, Mother and... The Other One with this set.

I like that there is left and right hands doing goat horns, so you make one unarmed headbanger

# ¿ Oct 10, 2019 15:18

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Indolent Bastard posted:

Is that a runic bagel or runic doughnut? I can't tell.

well that depends on how you paint it

# ¿ Nov 18, 2019 16:56

Nebalebadingdong: Jun 30, 2005; i made a video game.
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the plastic kits are extremely great so i hope frostgrave lasts forever

# ¿ Jul 12, 2020 03:23

Nebalebadingdong: Jun 30, 2005; i made a video game.
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I just ordered from North Star and Bad Squiddo yesterday and both sent me an email this morning saying that they had shipped the packages. Let's see which one gets here first! (I'm in Chicago)

# ¿ Jul 14, 2020 16:11

Nebalebadingdong: Jun 30, 2005; i made a video game.
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cross postin'

Nebalebadingdong posted:

frostgrave/oathmark kitbash

# ¿ Jul 17, 2020 01:07

Nebalebadingdong: Jun 30, 2005; i made a video game.
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my stuff from bad squiddo just arrived. drat fast for international shipping!

# ¿ Jul 21, 2020 00:56

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I finally got my hands on both the plastic frostgrave wizards boxes and I must say that the quality is fantastic. Huge variety of bits and arms, and the detail is superb. My only complaint is that there's no wizard heads with long luxurious beards in the male one.

# ¿ Jul 23, 2020 19:01